Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.
Rich Kulawiec
Debugging is like farting - it's not so bad when it's your own code.
Anonymous
Java is like a variant of the game of Tetris in which none of the pieces can fill gaps created by the other pieces, so all you can do is pile them up endlessly.
Steve Yegge
If it is worth doing once, it is worth automating...
Anonymous
In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can't.
Alan J. Perlis
When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
R. Buckminster Fuller
You can't eliminate problems, but you can make trades to get problems that you prefer over the ones you have now.
Eric Sink’s Axiom of Software Development
Owning a computer without programming is like having a kitchen and using only the microwave oven.
Charles Petzold
Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.
Albert Einstein
In seeking the unattainable, simplicity only gets in the way.
Alan J. Perlis